Justice Harlan concurred in the dissolution of Standard Oil, but was incensed by the Court’s implicit holding that a “reasonable” conduct might not be condemned. In memorable fashion, he restated the origins and purposes of the Sherman Act: All who recall the condition of the country in 1890 will remember that there was everywhere, among the people generally, a deep feeling of unrest. The nation had been rid of human slavery, fortunately, as all now feel—but the conviction was universal that the country was in real danger from another kind of slavery sought to be fastened on the American
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